Ralph Barone wrote:
wrote:
On Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 7:53:38 AM UTC-5, sms wrote:
On 5/14/2020 5:17 AM, wrote:
On Thursday, May 14, 2020 at 5:23:02 AM UTC+2, jbeattie wrote:
On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 7:56:48 PM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 5/13/2020 8:45 AM, wrote:

Can we talk about bicycles in rec.bicycles.tech?

Choose from the following topics:

a) Helmet conspiracy
b) Dynamo lights versus battery powered lights
c) Chain cleaning and lubrication

Don't get me going on battery powered helmet lights. Gads, those are
blinding on a MUP/cycletrack -- right at eye level. I'd like to whack
those people with a waxy chain. And its always the guys with like six
lights, and they're always in places where you could get by with no light at all.

-- Jay Beattie.

+1 what a f*cking idiots. Once one of those idiots stopped me and asked
for directions. I told him he could get lost. I was lost myself for half a minute.

I never understood the appeal of helmet mounted lights. Supposedly for
mountain biking in the wilderness they have advantages, but for on the
road they seem to be inconvenient and annoying.

The appeal of helmet lights is they light up what you are looking at.
Personally I see with my eyes. And they look straight ahead. My helmet
light points straight ahead just like my eyes. So the helmet light
shines where my eyes are looking. Personally I don't care if the stuff I
am not looking at is lit up. Because I am not looking at it.


The downside of helmet mounted lights is that either the light source so
close angularly to the eyes, there are minimal shadows and things look
“flat”. Potholes in the road don’t stand out as much. Also, while the
helmet mounted light shines on what you’re looking at, a fork or handlebar
mounted light shines on what you should be looking at.



Crikey. I can’t write worth **** today. Let me try that first sentence
again. The downside of helmet mounted lights is that since the light source
is so close angularly to the eyes, there are minimal shadows and things
look “flat”.